Amy Rolph

Time for another love letter to Seattle — but this one comes unsolicited from Reddit. A Seattleite of nine years posts that he (I think?) is moving to Washington D.C., the details the reasons he’ll miss this city.

It’s a rare moment of appreciation for our soggy city, and I thought it was worth sharing.

The genealogy site findmypast.com recently released the results of an poll about what town in America has the most unfortunate name, and you might be surprised to know not one spot in Washington made the list.

The told us in the movie “Alien” that “in space, no one can hear you scream.” (Pretend there was frantic, creepy music playing when you read that just now.)

That’s technically true, since sound waves can’t be transported in the vast nothingness that is the universe. Nevertheless, astrophysicists at the University of Michigan tell us they’ve recorded “quasiperiodic oscillations” emanating from a star being pulled in to a massive black hole about 3.9 billion light years away.